I. A. Goncharov: Oblomov (1966)

In 1859 Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov published his Oblomov. The novel was warmly received for the way it captured the spirit of the times and caricatured its ills. Oblomov is incapable of anything, neither career nor love, and wastes his life in passivity and inactivity. Because of his indecisiveness, Oblomov is often compared to William Shakespeare's - albeit much older - Hamlet. To the existential question "to be or not to be"? Oblomov would say no. Persons and cast: Ilya Ilyich Oblomov (Jaromir Spal), Andrej Stolc, his friend (Otakar Brousek I. ), Zachar, his servant (Antonín Zíb), Olga Sergeyevna (Karolina Slunéčková), Maria Mikhailovna Ilyinskaya, her aunt (Julie Charvátová), Baron Bezuchov (Jiri Roll), Agafya Matveyevna Pshenitsynova (Jaroslava Drmlova), Ivan Matvejic, her brother (Zdeněk Hodr), further performers Renata Pobudová, Josefa Pechlátová, František Hanus and others. Directed by: Josef Cervinka.